Climate and Environmental History Seminar: Per Högselius (KTH)
Per Högselius (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) presents at the seminar: "Carbon transnationalism: conflict and cooperation around coal in interwar Europe".
Seminar
Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025
Time: 15.00 – 17.00
Location: Department of History, room D837 and on Zoom
Per Högselius. Photo: KTH.
About the seminar
This seminar will bring to the fore a set of historical processes conceptualized as “carbon transnationalism”. This notion serves to highlight that fossil fuels were extracted, processed and burnt in transnational exploitative systems, involving complex cross-border relations, and that fossil fuels, in the process, fundamentally changed the political, economic, social and cultural relations between and within countries.
The empirical focus is on coal. Taking the traumatic coal shortages in Europe during World War I as a point of departure, the seminar zooms in on the period that followed – the Interwar era. This period marks the peak of coal’s dominance in the European energy system and it became the most vivid one in terms of European coal transnationalism.
Per Högselius is Professor at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, in Stockholm.
Conveners: Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Martin Skoglund, and Iva Lučić.
Zoom link: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/67767139466
For information about the seminar, e-mail: fredrik.c.l@historia.su.se
Last updated: 2025-12-02
Source: Department of History